- Olympic gold-winning long jumper named in five-man squad
- GB will now try to qualify for 2022 Winter Games in Beijing
Greg Rutherford’s audacious dream of becoming the first British athlete to win a medal at a summer and winter Olympics has moved a significant step closer after he was selected for the GB bobsleigh squad that will attempt to qualify for Beijing 2022.
Rutherford received the news, which will be announced later this week, after excelling in a series of tests at British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association headquarters in Bath and is now training hard for his first event in Igsl in Austria in seven weeks’ time.
